Virginia Dems claim that teaching about evils of communism will offend Asian Americans. How offensive

Virginia Democrats precocious voted nary connected a bill that would person required schools to thatch astir nan threat of communism and nan suffering of its victims aft a teachers’ national claimed specified a program would incite anti-Asian hate. 

The bill, HB1816, requires Virginia’s politician to admit Nov. 7 arsenic Victims of Communism Day, each nationalist simple and secondary schools successful nan commonwealth to grant victims of Communism connected this day, and thatch a program astir nan evils of communism. 

A measure for illustration this is agelong overdue because communism is responsible for nan deaths of 100 cardinal group successful nan 20th century. These victims had names, faces, unfulfilled hopes and dreams. They were husbands, wives, daughters, sons, uncles, aunties, grandparents aliases grandchildren. 

Mao Tse-Tung, founding chair of nan Chinese Communist Party. (Getty Images)

In Communist China alone, an estimated 30 cardinal group were starved to decease during nan Great Chinese Famine (1958-1962). The victims included my babe uncle, who was calved successful 1959 and died successful my grandmother’s arms. Additionally, I mislaid 2 granduncles, a grand-auntie and her family of five, and my maternal great-grandmother. 

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We, nan living, beryllium it to those victims not to hide them and dainty their deaths arsenic specified statistics. Instead, we must grant them by remembering really they lived and died and passing important humanities lessons down to early generations truthful nan atrocity we knowledgeable will ne'er hap again.

As a subsister of communism, I’m greatly troubled by survey aft survey showing that much American younker for illustration communism and its adjacent cousin, socialism, complete free marketplace capitalism. I don’t blasted these young people, but I responsibility our nation’s acquisition strategy for failing to thatch them nan evils of communism/socialism. 

Historian George Santayana warned, "Those who do not study from history are doomed to repetition it." Therefore, I applaud a measure for illustration HB1816 that requires nationalist simple and secondary schools successful Virginia to commemorate each victims connected Nov. 7, nan Victims of Communism Day, and thatch their students astir nan evils of communism. 

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Yet, Virginia’s largest teachers’ national opposed HB1816 pinch an absurd declare that school astir nan dangers of communism and honoring its victims would incite anti-Asian dislike because retired of 5 existent communist countries, 4 of them (China, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam) are successful Asia. Since nan Democrats are beholding to teachers’ unions, it is unsurprising that Virginia Democrats rejected HB1816. 

But do nan teachers’ union, and nan Democrats presume each Asians are communists? Or are nan teachers’ national and nan Democrats unaware that astir victims successful these 4 communist regimes were Asians? Or do nan teachers’ national and nan Democrats ideate non-Asian students cannot differentiate betwixt communist regimes and their Asian American classmates, friends and neighbors? 

Gov. Glenn Youngkin astatine nan Virginia authorities Capitol successful Richmond, Virginia, connected Jan. 15, 2022. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The declare that school communism would offend Asians is violative to each Asian Americans. Not school nan evils of communism dishonors millions of victims and does a disservice to each students successful Virginia. 

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If Virginia’s teachers’ national and nan state’s Democrats sincerely want to reside anti-Asian hate, an fantabulous spot to commencement is to extremity their warfare connected merit successful schools. 

Take Virginia’s famed Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ) arsenic an example. After nan left-learning schoolhouse committee canceled TJ’s merit-based and race-blind admittance exam successful nan sanction of "equity," nan number of qualified Asian American students admitted by TJ plummeted – Asian students dress up 54% of nan people of 2025, a melodramatic alteration from 73% of nan people of 2021. 

Attorney General Jason Miyares sits successful his agency Jan. 19, 2022, successful Richmond, Virginia. (Julia Rendleman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Liberal officials astatine TJ also reportedly withheld notifications of National Merit awards from nan school’s students and families successful nan past 5 years, spoiling these students’ assemblage applications and scholarships. These officials’ actions disproportionally wounded Asian students because they dress up nan mostly of TJ’s student body. In January this year, Gov. Glenn Youngkin asked the state’s Attorney General Jason Miyares to analyse whether TJ officials’ action violated affected students’ civilian rights. 

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The hypocrisy of Democrats and nan teachers’ unions is that while they blasted systemic racism for each unequal outcomes successful America, they actively practiced anti-Asian dislike successful our acquisition system. From eliminating talented and talented programs successful K-12 to canceling merit-based entranceway exams to elite precocious schools, to dropping modular tests from assemblage admissions, and defending nan alleged "holistic" assemblage admissions astatine institutions specified arsenic Harvard University, their nonsubjective is to limit Asian American’s practice because we are nan "wrong" benignant of minority. 

It is preposterous that nan near abruptly declares they are protecting america by refusing to thatch astir nan dangers and victims of communism. Fortunately, HB1816 passed Virginia’s legislature pinch nan mostly support from Republicans. Virginia students of each races will soon study astir communism and retrieve its victims. American writer Alex Haley erstwhile said that studying history is "no longer simply an world workout but whitethorn incorporate our world’s destiny and our destiny."

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